Peter Goodhall, 2E0SQL - M3PHP » cw

National Field Day at G5LO/P

Peter — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 17:55:59 +0000

The weekend is coming to an end after playing host to the annual CW national field day, although not really being a CW operator like normal I helped the Oxford & District ARS setup for the event from late Friday afternoon to get the antennas setup and ready for operating and also got a bit sun burnt due to the lovely weather that day.

Field Day Station View

Then returned back during Saturday while Dad (M3JFM) and myself were out cycling enjoying the Oxfordshire/Edge of Buckinghamshire country side, most of the station was finally setup when we arrived although the generator died just as we arrived on site 2 hours before the contest started thankfully we managed to get one hour before the start, returning home later that evening via a pub stop to refuel for the 10miles cycle home.

Friday team busy at work!

During the weekend I also managed with the help of MixW to work 38 field day stations mixed across 80/40/20/15/10m which I was more then happy with, hopefully next year will be just as good!

You can find the rest of the photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/m3php/sets/72157624080291655/

RSGB 80m AFS (CW)

Peter — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:59:35 +0000

It wasn’t till Tim (G4VXE) sent a tweet on Twitter that he’d just worked 20 qsos in the AFS that I remembered about, so I switched from 20m as I wasn’t working much at the time and decided to give 80m a try, normally I find working anything on 80m pretty hard going with the Windom.

But today it seemed different I was calling people and they were coming back to be and before I knew it I had a good few QSOs in the logbook. I’ll admit I didn’t decode any of the Morse myself I had software doing all the work but still had an enjoyable time giving away some points.

End results:

Total QSOs: 47
Total Time: 2 hours
Equipment: Yaesu FT950, 80m CW Special Windom and LDG AT200PRO auto atu.

ARRL DX 10m Contest

Peter — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:11:20 +0000

This weekend was the ARRL 10m contest, I knew well in advance that this was in no way a serious contest with conditions in there current state, but even so I had a tune over 10m Saturday afternoon to see what I could hear there was a couple of weak EAs on SSB, but lower down the band on CW was EA4TX and EA4KA who both came back first call.

So I was at least pleased to get two QSOs but I wont be winning any awards for this one.